Maitena
Maitena Burundarena (born May 19, 1962 in Buenos Aires ), stage name Maitena , is an Argentine cartoonist .
Life
Maitena Burundarena is of Basque descent from her father, Carlos Burundarena, who was Minister of Culture and Education in 1981, at a later stage in the Argentine military dictatorship, and of Polish descent from her mother. She grew up with six siblings in a suburb of Buenos Aires .
She is married to Daniel Kon, the manager of the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, and has three children.
Create
First work
As an autodidact, she drew her first erotic comics for the Argentine magazines Sex Humor , Fierro , Humor and Cerdos y Peces . In Europe, the first work appeared in the Spanish magazine Makoki (Barcelona). She worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines as well as for school books. She also wrote screenplays for television and ran a restaurant and bar.
Comic series
Her first comic strip series entitled Flo appeared in the daily newspaper Tiempo Argentino . A collection of the first works was later published in book form under the title Y en este rincón, las mujeres by Ediciones de la Flor .
The women's magazine Para Ti signed Maitena in 1994 for a weekly humor page. This is how the comic series Mujeres alteradas was born , which was later published very successfully in several countries in Latin America and Europe, u. a. since 1999 in El País Semanal , the Sunday supplement to the Spanish daily El País . For this, the language has been adapted to Spanish Spanish.
Collections of these strips have appeared in book form in Spain and Latin America and have been translated into more than 12 languages, in German in 2005 under the title Wonderful Woman Pictures .
Between 1998 and 2003 Maitena published a daily comic strip under the title Superadas in the humor section of the Argentine daily La Nación . Reprinted in various other domestic and foreign newspapers. In 2002 publication in book form ( Superadas 1-3 ).
In Curvas Peligrosas 1 y 2 , the drawings from the Sunday edition of the newspaper are Argentine La Nación assembled.
novel
Rumble , her first novel , was published in August 2011 . It has autobiographical traits and tells the story of a young girl in Argentina in the 1970s.
Works
In Spanish
- Y en este rincón, las mujeres. Ediciones de la flor, 1992.
- Mujeres alteradas 1. Editorial Atlantida, Buenos Aires 1994, ISBN 950-08-1343-2 .
- Mujeres alteradas 2. Editorial Atlantida, Buenos Aires 1995, ISBN 950-08-1524-9 .
- Mujeres alteradas 3. Editorial Atlantida, Buenos Aires 1997, ISBN 950-08-2396-9 .
- Mujeres alteradas 4. Editorial Atlantida, Buenos Aires 1999, ISBN 950-08-2112-5 .
- Mujeres alteradas 5th Lumen, Barcelona 2002, ISBN 84-264-4610-8 .
- Curvas Peligrosas 1st Lumen, Barcelona 2004, ISBN 84-264-1471-0 .
- Curvas Peligrosas 2nd Lumen, Barcelona 2005, ISBN 84-264-1523-7 .
- Superadas 1st RqueR Editorial, Barcelona 2002, ISBN 84-932721-0-8 .
- Superadas 2nd RqueR Editorial, Barcelona 2003, ISBN 84-933263-3-X .
- Superadas 3rd RqueR Editorial, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 84-934727-3-5 .
- Todo superadas. Lumen, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 950-07-2881-8 .
- Todas las mujeres alteradas. Lumen, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 84-264-1590-3 .
- Rumble. Lumen, Madrid 2011, ISBN 978-84-264-2022-0 .
In German
- Superadas. Ullstein Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-25806-9 .
- Wonderful women. Lappan Verlag, Oldenburg 2005, ISBN 3-8303-3117-7 .
literature
- Melissa Fitch: The Cartoonist: Maitena , in: Side Dishes. Latina American Women, Sex, and Cultural Production , Rutgers University Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-8135-4525-7 , pp. 52f.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Homepage of Maitena, Spanish
- Literature by and about Maitena in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maitena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burundarena, Maitena (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | argentinian comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires |